Junior,

>Could be.  Its been a while since I last watched it, and I've 
watched both the sub and the dub multiple times.<

     It's been a while for myself, but this was definitely one of 
the issues that came up in the old sub vs. dub discussions.

>Nope.  Doesn't matter.  Even if Tenchi went through the first two 
OVA series and didn't show any supernatural abilities until the 
confrontation in the recent episode, then the comment would have 
qualified as proper foreshadowing.  We might have believed that it 
referred to one thing, but it would merely have been misdirection 
on the part of Kajishima.  Though that particular method wouldn't 
have been the best way of handling things.<

     I believe that the same can be said regarding Misaki's 
handling of Ryouko.  In every case where it was used in OVA 1 - 2, 
it was an indication that there was something more to the 
individual.  Airi's 'smackdown' of Ryouko is the only event that 
people seem to consider as somehow turning Ryouko into a 
pushover.  With or without its presence, I feel that episode 13 
was a good enough illustration of how Misaki is unusually strong.


>The best foreshadowing is the type that doesn't tip you off that 
its foreshadowing until after the event has happened.  Setting 
things up without telegraphing them.<

     Agreed, but the issue is that I and a number of other Tenchi 
fans saw foreshadowing, but others did not.  Going beyond episode 
13, Kajishima gave us more hints in the STM novels, but aside from 
one somewhat cryptic narratorial comment, it was more of the same: 
Misaki's unusual strength.


>1.)  Have Misaki show up in one of Sasami's dreams.  In this 
case, it would have represented Tsunami having an unconscious 
awareness that there was something abnormal about Misaki, but 
could be misdirected when Sasami and Tsunami decided that her 
>appearence there was only as a result of her closeness to Sasami.<

     The Choushin can only forsee causality in connection with non-
anomalous aspects.  That was the reason that they undertook the 
experiment in the first place.
 

>2.)  Have Misaki make a trip to Earth with her mother to visit 
her daughters again, and have an unusual reaction to Tenchi during 
the fight with the GP (which is indirectly the result of meddling 
by Tokimi's agent).<

     Tenchi returned the counterreactor/Misaki to a 'normal' 
state, not an abnormal state.  Another possibly foreshadowing 
response was Misaki's attraction to Tenchi (very different from 
Funaho) in episode 13 which can and is often dismissed as an 
expression of Misaki's affectionate nature.


>3.)  Don't have Misaki come to Earth, but instead have her mother 
provide a seeming throwaway line that hints about an unusual 
status for Misaki.<

     How would this come about?  Seto is here because of Noike and 
Tenchi (supposedly).  She could say that she has two unusual 
daughters, but it wouldn't have added to my perception that Misaki 
*is* unusual.  It would seem less than subtle, more of that 
telling vs. showing that is disliked.


>Three ideas that all provide foreshadowing of Misaki's role in 
the recent episode.  I'm sure that it would be possible to come up 
with plenty more.<

     Two of them don't fit with the Tenchi universe and one them 
strikes me as less than subtle, the equivalen of a professor 
saying "this might be on the exam". 

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